overtaking haynes

3.78 mile hike in new york at storm king mountain state park by the hudson river. I was surprised at the beauty of the area so close to the city. i could easily see the catskills being only 25 miles north of new york city. the mountains rose well over 1000 feet from the river below. Trails were a bit icy although not enough to matter. There are lots of trails in the area both in the park and across the river in another park to explore. unfortunately there is at least one known rattlesnake sighting in the area which i found online which i'm not into. would have been great running today. wish i could have done more but i was with a friend who is new to hiking. i'm psyched my legs weren't sore at all from yesterday.

ran to huntington park and got to run almost 4 miles on trails. got back at 7:41 and was able to change and shower and be in my car going to work at 7:51. I was quite pleased with that performance. definitely a personal best, and as a result was only 5 min late to work. i probably would have only been 4 min late but there's this really creepy guy that glares at me and/or my brother every morning as he waits for the bus. i don't want to encourage any psychopathic urges he might have so i take the long way. 

It would figure that on friday it would be a day that i could barely wake up to get any miles in. i chose to explore a trail that turned out to be by a river and was super icy and slanted in parts on a hill making it very treacherous. i had to go back on this same trail due to time constraints. there are over 20 different trail systems or so in town but almost all of them are narrow and will be full of ticks in the summer. won't be back to this trail. 

3:36. This run was pretty interesting. i tried out some more new trails to modify my way to huntington park. they were a little hard to follow because they aren't well traveled and the patchy crusty snow and dead leaves look the same everywhere. didn't enjoy it too much but i got to the park and had a good run through there to the connector trail i always take. i explored a bunch of what looked like roads that i had vowed to explore but was always too focused on the mileage and knowing how far things were. today i took several of them and they kind of disappointingly dead ended. This one i took ended and i decided to just free run through the woods for what amounted to about 1.5 miles without seeing any houses. I made my way out and finished the run off without too much difficulty on only 1 cliff bar. i'm no longer nervous that i can't finish 40 miles pretty strong.